Good News, BPOM Says That Sirop Drugs That Are Sold At Pharmacies Can Be Used

Residents queue to buy drugs at pharmacies/ Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Bengkulu Food and Drug Supervisory Center (BPOM) ensures that the sirop drugs sold in all official pharmacies in Bengkulu are safe for use by the public. "We ensure that sirop drugs in Bengkulu are safe for consumption and allowed in official pharmacies," said Head of BPOM Bengkulu Yogi Abaso Mataram, quoted from Antara, Sunday, November 27. For circloping drugs containing glycol, polyethylene glycol, sorbitol, and glycerin or glycerol that cause acyclical progressive acute kidney stuttering (acute kidney injury) in children in the Bengkulu Province area have been withdrawn from the market. Therefore, he appealed to the public to buy medicines at official pharmacies because pharmacists will later explain Suppler drugs that can be consumed according to their illness. "In addition, BPOM has also coordinated with the Indonesian Pharmacists Association (IAI) Bengkulu Province to restrain the presence of dangerous drug circhops in the market so that they are then withdrawn by producers. "As long as our supervision, the presence of this drug sirop is still at the stage of returning to its pharmaceutical industry to be culled. So it is still in Bengkulu pharmacies, but it has been secured," he said.

According to him, it will take time for pharmaceutical industries to withdraw their products, but it will be carried out regularly so that products in the derivatives mentioned by the central BPOM are not circulating in Bengkulu. Some time ago, the Bengkulu Provincial Health Office found one case of a patient suffering from acute kidney failure in Lebong Regency aged four years and died. "Based on the results of an epidemiological team investigation that the case reported by the Lebong Hospital died due to acute kidney failure," explained Head of the Bengkulu Provincial Health Office, Herwan Antoni. Previously he died, the patient had a history of flu, cough, and when he was treated to a doctor was given a prescription of fluid medicine or cirrop type Unibi to the child. As well as the parents of the patient also often gave the child medicine from a stall and used sirop drug without a doctor's prescription. Therefore, Bengkulu Governor Rohidin Mersyah asked the entire community, especially parents whose children experienced symptoms of acute kidney failure atypical disease, to immediately bring it to the doctor. "If there are early symptoms of acute kidney failure, then it must be as soon as possible to contact the nearest doctor," he said. Like experiencing a weak body, fever, diarrhea, difficulty omitting, nausea and shortness of breath. It is known, some time ago BPOM RI had issued a circular about 168 lists of drugs that were safe to consume and did not contain four solvents such as glycol propylene, glycol polyethylene, sorbitol, and/or glycerin/glicerol.